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Cyberpunk 2077 Will NOT Be An Epic Game Store Exclusive, Say Devs

According to CD Projekt Red, Cyberpunk 2077 will not be an Epic Game Store exclusive title.

Last December, Epic Games made a big splash by announcing the Epic Games Store, a digital storefront that would compete with longtime PC game retailer, Steam.

For the longest time, Steam had a deadlock on the PC games market. Despite taking a 30% cut to do little more than provide a bulletproof app to find and purchase games (and also a server farm to make getting those games quick and easy) Steam was the unchanging, immovable edifice of PC gaming. And for the most part, PC gamers love Steam so there was little reason to complain.

Game developers, however, did complain. Indie devs got lost in the giant sea of games while big-name developers lost a big part of their revenue.

Enter Epic Games, creators of Fortnite and a bunch of other games that weren’t quite as successful as Fortnite. They decided to upend the Steam paradigm with a 12/88 revenue split and a small, carefully curated list of games to choose from.

That got game developer’s attention in a big way to the point where a bunch of them jumped to Epic to become Epic Games Store exclusives. Games like Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, Metro Exodus, and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw will only be available on Epic Games Store.

This got a few people worried that Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red’s upcoming cyberpunk RPG, would also become an Epic Games Store exclusive. One even asked the devs outright on Twitter if they were considering moving to Epic.